Synology DiskStation DS415play

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Today we are checking out the Synology DS415play, a purpose built NAS designed for home multimedia applications. This is Synology's second generation ?play? device and the first 4-bay model. The key feature of this NAS is dedicated hardware acceleration, specifically for video transcoding which is provided by the Intel Atom CE5335 SoC...

Late last year on October 21st 2013, Synology announced its first ever media-centric DiskStation, the DS214play. What this meant was that the DS214play was the first Synology product to feature dedicated hardware acceleration, specifically for video transcoding. The DS214play could simultaneously stream multiple 1080p videos, and was still able to handle a variety of additional processor-heavy tasks.

Powering the DS214play is an Intel Atom "Berryville" (32 nm) dual-core SoC (System-on-Chip) processor which is Intel's latest embedded media processor. This wasn't the first time we had seen a NAS device powered by this particular Atom SoC, as Asustor beat Synology to the punch with their AS-304T model, complete with HDMI out.
 Synology DiskStation DS415play @ Legion Hardware